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Example sentences for "religious ceremony"

  • I should add that now they have been married by religious ceremony--in prison!

  • The former maintains Holy Matrimony to be a religious ceremony, while the State recognises the legality of mere civil contracts, and allows people to enter into the nuptial state by a civil ceremony.

  • Latin, sacramentum, an oath or promise ratified by a sacred or religious ceremony; thus the oath taken by soldiers in classical times was called sacramentum.

  • The pula ends with a religious ceremony in the church, with feasting friends and relatives in the house, and feeding the poor, according to one's means.

  • No religious ceremony or marriage could be undertaken without gaining their consent by the payment of fees, etc.

  • No religious ceremony, no record, or witness was essential.

  • The result is curious, for at first sight the lay tribunal seems to be rigidly requiring a religious ceremony which in the eyes of the church is unessential.

  • The nomenclature of religious ceremony, of moral qualities, and of nearly all the arts of life they possess, are all Hindí.

  • Abstinence from food before or in connection with the performance of a magical or religious ceremony, pp.

  • In New South Wales the firstborn of every lubra used to be eaten by the tribe "as part of a religious ceremony.

  • Friendship among girls is cemented by a religious ceremony.

  • He frequently did so, as he does so to-day, but in the seventeenth century this act often is part of a religious ceremony.

  • When the Australian goes away from a religious ceremony, the representations which this communal life has aroused or re-aroused within him are not obliterated in a second.

  • This is why the very idea of a religious ceremony of some importance awakens the idea of a feast.

  • The Chinese had an oho-harahi, defined by Mr. Giles in his Chinese Dictionary as 'a religious ceremony of purification performed in spring and autumn, with a view to secure divine protection for agricultural interests.

  • Everywhere, except in Maryland and West Virginia, where a religious ceremony is essential to a valid union, the optional civil or religions ceremony, at the pleasure of the persons contracting, is sanctioned by the law.

  • Our knowledge of the uses of music among the most ancient nations is chiefly confined to its function in religious ceremony.

  • Music never failed at public or private festivity, religious ceremony, or funeral rite.

  • Marriage, for example, though it still needed a religious ceremony in common opinion, ceased to need it in the eye of the law--a change which is familiar to us in our own age.

  • The foundation was a religious ceremony; the "founder" traced a sacred enclosure, constructed a sacred hearth, and lighted there the holy fire.

  • Roman marriage, therefore, is at the start a religious ceremony.

  • A festival was not, as with us, purely an occasion of rejoicing, but a religious ceremony.

  • They have magic, but they have no religion, says Mr. Frazer, who presently informs us that 1 the first-born child of every woman was eaten by the tribe as part of a religious ceremony.

  • We do not know whether they correctly interpreted the alleged sacrifice, in a religious ceremony (by a people said to be almost or quite irreligious), of all the first-born children of women.

  • In proof of the existence of the custom Mr. Frazer adduces an Australian parallel: 'In some tribes of New South Wales the first-born child of every woman was eaten by the tribe as part of a religious ceremony.

  • They are of different size, and represent probably a man and a woman performing a religious ceremony; the taller holds in each hand a Latin cross, while the other carries but one in the right hand.

  • The initiation into the order of knighthood was a religious ceremony, and usually took place on one of the feasts of the Church, as Easter day, the day of Pentecost, or Christmas day.


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